Sentence examples for asked for a breakdown from inspiring English sources
The figure, even to us an old believer in America-the-Land-of-Opportunity, seemed staggering, and we asked for a breakdown.
When I asked for a breakdown of the account, they were unable to provide one, but offered me a deal to pay it off at a fraction of the original amount.
In our interview, he'd made so many artistic references in describing his vastly ambitious new work, Symphony to a Lost Generation, that I'd asked for a breakdown, which he duly supplied: Hegel, Wagner, TS Eliot, Brecht, Otto Dix, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Robert Wilson, Slavoj Žižek.
I asked for a breakdown, but a little napkin math gives a basic idea of the volume.
The board also asked for a breakdown of the waivers from state regulations provided to charters but not to traditional systems.
Also ask for a breakdown of how your money would be spent".
The Education Department's appeal application asks for a breakdown on test scores.
Even if your programme is being partly subsidised by the government or your university, ask for a breakdown of costs.
Some enquiring soul used the Freedom of Information Act to ask for a breakdown of MPs with outstanding food and drinks bills and elicited some top items of information.
Many Chinese officials would worry about losing their job or even going to jail for this, but when your correspondent asks for a breakdown of its implementation, Mr Jin gets detailed monthly statements printed out.Government budgets in China are usually treated as secrets, except for vague headline figures issued for public consumption.
